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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

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The French courage proceeds from vanity

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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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The French courage proceeds from vanity

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And not a vanity is given in vain.

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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